Al Abbas Holy Shrine

The Al-Abbas Shrine is the mausoleum of Abbas ibn Ali and a mosque, located near the Imam Husayn Mosque in Karbala, Iraq. Abbas was son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and the half-brother of Hasan and Husayn. He was Husayn's flag-bearer in the Battle of Karbala and chief of his caravans. The distance between the shrines of Abbas and Husayn is the same as the distance between the hills of Safa and Marwah. The shrine is especially revered by the Shia who visit it every year, in the month of Muharram rather than various other times of the year.